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Overview

Calibre LFD

The Calibre LFD tool captures a design’s response to manufacturing process window effects, empowering engineers to identify and fix variability, reliability, and manufacturing yield issues before tape-out.

Get in touch with our technical team: 1-800-547-3000

chip surrounded by external circuitry | The Calibre LFD tool captures a design’s response to manufacturing effects, empowering engineers to identify and fix yield issues before tape-out.

Calibre LFD Resources

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Key Features

LFD Virtual Fab Predicts Manufacturing Process Impact

The Calibre LFD tool provides a virtual fab that predicts the “as manufactured” lithographic process variability impact on your design.

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Accurately identify specific manufacturing failures and yield inhibitors across process window conditions in a DRC-clean design.

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Guide design trade-off decisions with an accurately calculated manufacturing-aware design variability index to reduce your product layout’s susceptibility to process variability.

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Prevent Yield Failures

Identify Defects Across Manufacturing Process Windows

Accurately identify specific manufacturing failures and yield inhibitors across process window conditions in a DRC-clean design.

colorful images of IC wafers | Calibre Design

Guide Design Trade-Offs

Reduce Process Variability to Optimize Performance

Guide design trade-off decisions with an accurately calculated manufacturing-aware design variability index to reduce your product layout’s susceptibility to process variability.

Hand pointing to translucent squares floating in air | Calibre LFD guides design trade-off decisions with an accurately calculated manufacturing-aware design variability index to reduce your product layout’s susceptibility to process variability.

Accurate, Fast, Integrated

Advanced Machine Learning Technology Reduces Runtime

Integrated advanced machine learning techniques produce accurate results and provide major runtime improvement.

Outline of head on background of schematics with light rays beaming from objects in brain | Calibre Design

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